GURUGRAM: A year after the state govt put in computerized sanitary serviette dispensers and incinerators in all schools of the state, to advertise menstrual well being of women and adolescent women via ensuring availability of quality sanitary napkins, none of the machines on this city’s 5 schools are operating. TOI visited four of the universities and found that none of the machines have ever been used by scholars.
Suresh Dhanerwal, main, Government College at Hailey Mandi, stated, “These machines have never worked. Whenever women urgently sought after sanitary pads, they asked me, and we operated them manually. These machines have never worked as promised.”
Around 15,000 girl scholars of town’s 5 schools had been to have the benefit of the scheme, inaugurated via chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on January 13, 2017. Government Girl’s College in Sector 14 on my own has 7,500 girl scholars, Guru Dronacharya College in Sector 8 has three,000, with four,500 others spread over the remaining three schools.
Meenakshi Arora, nurse at Government College, Sector 14, stated, “The machines worked tremendous for a couple of days, however then began to break down every different day. We needed to get the only in our faculty repaired at our personal expense.” Meenakshi Pandey, the pinnacle of the ladies’s cellular at Guru Dronacharya College, stated, “The machines did paintings for a couple of days, however they began to turn faults since then. Girls additionally generally tend to misuse them, inflicting them to malfunction. Sometimes, we got them repaired with our personal money.”
An professional of the state higher training department, wishing to stay nameless, stated, “We’ve noted the faults and issues experienced via scholars whilst the use of the machines. The department will glance into this factor and get the machines repaired.”
Suresh Dhanerwal, main, Government College at Hailey Mandi, stated, “These machines have never worked. Whenever women urgently sought after sanitary pads, they asked me, and we operated them manually. These machines have never worked as promised.”
Around 15,000 girl scholars of town’s 5 schools had been to have the benefit of the scheme, inaugurated via chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on January 13, 2017. Government Girl’s College in Sector 14 on my own has 7,500 girl scholars, Guru Dronacharya College in Sector 8 has three,000, with four,500 others spread over the remaining three schools.
Meenakshi Arora, nurse at Government College, Sector 14, stated, “The machines worked tremendous for a couple of days, however then began to break down every different day. We needed to get the only in our faculty repaired at our personal expense.” Meenakshi Pandey, the pinnacle of the ladies’s cellular at Guru Dronacharya College, stated, “The machines did paintings for a couple of days, however they began to turn faults since then. Girls additionally generally tend to misuse them, inflicting them to malfunction. Sometimes, we got them repaired with our personal money.”
An professional of the state higher training department, wishing to stay nameless, stated, “We’ve noted the faults and issues experienced via scholars whilst the use of the machines. The department will glance into this factor and get the machines repaired.”
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March 22, 2018
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